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Matthew - ch 16 v 1 - 20
- And there came to him the Pharisees and Sadduccees tempting: and they asked him to shew them a sign from heaven.
- But he answered and said to them: When it is evening, you say, It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.
- And in the morning: To day there will be a storm, for the sky is red and lowering. You know then how to discern the face of the sky: and can you not know the signs of the times?
- A wicked and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign: and a sign shall not be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet. And he left them, and went away.
- And when his disciples were come over the water, they had forgotten to take bread.
- Who said to them: Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
- But they thought within themselves, saying: Because we have taken no bread.
- And Jesus knowing it, said: Why do you think within yourselves, O ye of little faith, for that you have no bread?
- Do you not yet understand, neither do you remember the five loaves among five thousand men, and how many baskets you took up?
- Nor the seven loaves among four thousand men, and how many baskets you took up?
- Why do you not understand that it was not concerning the bread I said to you: Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?
- Then they understood that he said not that they should beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
- And Jesus came into the quarters of Cesarea Philippi: and he asked his disciples, saying: Whom do men say that the Son of man is?
- But they said: Some John the Baptist, and other some Elias, and others Jeremias, or one of the prophets.
- Jesus saith to them: But whom do you say that I am?
- Simon Peter answered and said: Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God.
- And Jesus answering, said to him: Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-Jona: because flesh and blood hath not revealed it to thee, but my Father who is in heaven.
- And I say to thee: That thou art Peter; and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
- And I will give to thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind upon earth, it shall be bound also in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose upon earth, it shall be loosed also in heaven.
- Then he commanded his disciples, that they should tell no one that he was Jesus the Christ.
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